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DR. FEARGHAL MORGAN, CEng FIEI 

Lecturer, Electrical & Electronic Engineering College of Engineering and Informatics Contact Information Phone: 353 91 493137 (Ext: 3137) ,  Fax: 353 91 494511 Location: Engineering Building, Rm 442,NUI Galway  Email: fearghal.morgannuigalway.ie

Academic Experience

Fearghal Morgan has been a Lecturer Electrical & Electronic Engineering, NUI Galway since 1997. He spent almost two years as Head of Department during this period. Previously he held the position of Lecturer II in Electronic Engineering for four years in the Institute of Technology Tallaght, Dublin, a startup third level college.

Fearghal graduated from Queens University Belfast with a B.Sc. (Hons) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering in 1981 and Ph.D in Electrical & Electronic Engineering in 1986. His Ph.D thesis title is “An Investigation of the Manufacture and Characterisation of Enhancement-type Buried Channel MOS Transistors”.

Research

Fearghal currently leads the Bio-Inspired Electronics and Reconfigurable Computing ( BIRC) Research Group (NUI Galway) .

His research interests include:
- Evolvable Hardware, in particular Network on Chip (NoC)-based Hardware Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs).
- Genetic and Evolutionary computation.
- Reconfigurable Computing technology, applications and FPGA IP security

Fearghal is active in a range of conferences as General and Programme Chair and Programme Committee member. He acts as a reviewer for a number of journals in the bio-inspired and reconfigurable computing areas.

• Postgraduate Research Team
  
• Publications
• Patents
  
• Conference Organisation and Proceedings Editorships

Teaching, Curriculum Development and Examination Experience

Fearghal received the NUI Galway President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2009. He is active in research-led and workshop-based teaching. He has developed and presented courses at Nat. Cert to Degree, Industry, and taught postgraduate levels. Subjects include Digital Systems Design, Microprocessor Systems and Semiconductor Technology. Fearghal has acted as External Examiner for a range of degree programmes, five Ph.D theses and seven research Masters theses.

Industry Experience

Prior to rejoining academia in 1993, Fearghal spent almost seven years as a designer of communications and networking systems at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), Ireland. As a Senior Design Engineer in the Communications Systems Engineering Design Group (Clonmel and Galway), Fearghal worked on the design and development of high performance digital communications products including the DEC Hastings Network Integration Server family and the Hastings Address Recognition Engine ASIC. Fearghal co-authored 3 patents while in industry.

Research Funding and Collaboration

Fearghal has received research funding support from a range of Irish and multi-national industry collaborators, The European Commission (FP7), Science Foundation Ireland, Enterprise Ireland, and the Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology.

The BIRC research group collaborates with the Intelligent Systems Research Centre (ISRC), University of Ulster. Fearghal is a Collaborator in the SFI funded Efficient Embedded DSP ( EEDSP) Research Cluster. He is also a PI and Executive Committee member of the IRCSET-funded International Centre for Graduate Education in Micro and NANO Engineering ( ICGEE). In 2001, Fearghal spent one year as a visiting research at ENSIETA, Brest, France. From 2005-2008, he served as an Executive Committee member and Chair of the Third Level Committee, Microelectronics Industry Design Association ( MIDAS Ireland). Fearghal is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of Engineers Ireland.

    

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